TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Motorcycle helmets: the economic burden of an incomplete helmet law to medical care in the state of Connecticut
JO  - Connecticut medicine
A1  - Wiznia, Daniel H.
A1  - Averbukh, Leon
A1  - Kim, Chang-Yeon
A1  - Goel, Alex
A1  - Leslie, Michael P.
SP  - 453
EP  - 459
VL  - 79
IS  - 8
N2  - The lack of a mandatory motorcycle helmet law leads to increased injury severity and increased health care costs. This study presents a financial model to estimate how the lack of a mandatory helmet law impacts the cost of health care in the state of Connecticut. The average cost to treat a helmeted rider and a nonhelmeted rider was $3,112 and $5,746 respectively (cost adjusted for year 2014). The total hospital treatment cost in the state of Connecticut from 2003 through 2012 was $73,106,197, with $51,508,804 attributed to nonhelmeted riders and $21,597,393 attributed to helmeted riders. The total Medicaid cost to the state of Connecticut for treating nonhelmeted patients was $18,277,317. This model demonstrates that the lack of a mandatory helmet law increases overall health care costs to the state of Connecticut, and provides a framework by which hospital costs can be reduced to contribute to the economic stability of health care economics in the state.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0010-6178
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -